Press Release

Morgan Lewis Secures Rankings in IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate 2017 Guide

Friday, October 21, 2016

PHILADELPHIA, October 21, 2016: Morgan Lewis earned high rankings in five of the six key areas evaluated in the recently released IFLR1000 Financial and Corporate 2017 Guide.

The firm was ranked in Tier 2 for Hedge Funds; Tier 3 for M&A, Private Equity, Private Equity Funds, and Registered Funds; Tier 4 for Banking; and Tier 5 for Project Finance, Capital Markets: Derivatives, and Restructuring and Insolvency. Additionally, nine Morgan Lewis lawyers were named “Leading Lawyers” and 17 were recognized as “Rising Stars”:

Leading Lawyers

  • John Arnholz
  • Reed Auerbach
  • Daniel Budofsky
  • Michael Chapnick
  • Rick Eisenbiegler
  • Matthew Joseph
  • Steve Levitan
  • Marc Reardon
  • Mark Williams

Rising Stars

  • Harlyn Bohensky
  • Claudine Chen-Young
  • Christopher Dlutowski
  • Joshua Dorchak
  • Laura Flores
  • Julia Frost-Davies
  • Andrew Gallo
  • Sean Graber
  • Asa Herald
  • Jeffrey MacDonald
  • Thomas Mellor
  • Paul Raymond
  • Philip Russell
  • Matthew Schernecke
  • Stephen Tirrell
  • Katherine Weinstein
  • Ian Wenniger

The guide ranks the world's leading financial and corporate law firms and lawyers based on three criteria: transactional evidence and peer and client feedback.